Lorenzo Valla

Lorenzo Valla was an Italian Renaissance humanist scholar, rhetorician, educator, and Catholic priest. He is best known for his historical-critical textual analysis that proved that the Donation of Constantine was a forgery, therefore impugning and undermining the presumption of temporal power claimed by the papacy.

Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Dates from Wikidata (CC0)

Who was born first?

• Lorenzo Valla and Leonello d'Este, Marquis of Ferrara were born the same year
• Lorenzo Valla was born 3 years before Giorgio da Sebenico
• Lorenzo Valla was born 4 years after Basilios Bessarion
• Lorenzo Valla was born 5 years after Nezahualcóyotl
• Lorenzo Valla was born 7 years before Jami

Timeline

1. NezahualcóyotlApril 26, 1402 – June 4, 1472
2. Basilios BessarionJanuary 2, 1403 – November 18, 1472
3. Leonello d'Este, Marquis of FerraraSeptember 21, 1407 – October 1, 1450
4. Lorenzo Valla (this page)1407 – August 1, 1457
5. Giorgio da Sebenico1410 – October 10, 1473
6. JamiNovember 7, 1414 – November 9, 1492

Related

• Albert EinsteinMarch 14, 1879 – April 18, 1955
• Aristotle384–322 BC
• Confuciuscirca 551 BC – circa 479 BC
• Karl MarxMay 5, 1818 – March 14, 1883
• Isaac NewtonDecember 25, 1642 – March 20, 1727
• Plato420s BC – 340s BC
• Mahatma GandhiOctober 2, 1869 – January 30, 1948
• Leo TolstoyAugust 28, 1828 – November 7, 1910